All articles by George Jarrett – Page 7
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Industry Trends
IBC2017 round-up: Trade bodies and industry alliances
The broadcast and media industry’s trade bodies were out in force at this year’s IBC, demonstrating technology advances, forging alliances and showcasing their standards work.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Michael Jaschke, glomex
With a promise of fair ad revenue shares, detailed analytics and one-click embedded codes, glomex has strong ideas when it comes to monetisation.
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Industry Trends
IABM research: IP interoperability “vital” to users
IBC2017: The IABM breakfast session was dominated by the word ‘consolidation’ and quirky research contradictions.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Laura Houlgatte, International Union of Cinemas
Operators who embrace innovation have the opportunity to drive deeper engagement with cinema-goers.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Richard Waghorn, RTE
New business models, and the new skill sets required if platforms are to stand out from the crowd, are two considerations that brought the Saorview Connect box into play.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Wim Ponnet, Endemol Shine Netherlands
Wim Ponnet works for a company that produces up to 700 big productions annually, and it sure knows how to exploit its IP (intellectual property).
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Industry Trends
Driving ahead with IP: Under the bonnet of Timeline and Arena's new OB trucks
Arena and Timeline have become the reference points for moving outside broadcasting into the promised land of IP.
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Industry Trends
Managing VoD platforms and the delivery of content
The growing importance – and complexity – of VoD platforms has required vendors and service providers to provide sophisticated solutions.
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Industry Trends
IMF for TV: the solution to versioning woes?
When Hollywood finally had its Interoperable Master Format (IMF) standardised by SMPTE back in 2013, there were already murmurings about a possible broadcast version of the format.
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Industry Trends
IoT: an extension of the multi-screen experience?
Video analytics are transforming IoT beyond just another evolution in the transition to digital experience management.
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Industry Trends
Going green: encouraging sustainability in TV and film
Bafta-led sustainability initiative Albert has made great strides in encouraging TV productions to reduce their carbon emissions and the amount of waste they produce.
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Industry Trends
Securing the creative industries from cyberattacks
The devastating cyberattack that hit Sony Pictures Entertainment at the end of 2014 caused some consternation in the upper reaches of the UK government as well as in the boardrooms of companies in the creative industries. Then Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, who had sought to boost the appeal ...
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Industry Trends
BBC R&D demos second screen apps
BBC R&D has been working on second screen synchronisation technology that aims to ease navigation.
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Industry Trends
Moving production to the cloud
The immediate barriers to unfettered production in the cloud are bandwidth, the compression required to shrink bit rates, transport, discovery and security.
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Executive Interviews
IET President Naomi Climer: How to solve the skills gap
Video: IBCTV IP Studio: Naomi Climer, IET and Chair of IBC Council IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) President Naomi Climer believes that the industry has a skills issue.
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Executive Interviews
The evolution of broadcast and the true meaning of IP
The transition to IP, the value of metadata and the ageing media industry are just some of the issues facing the broadcast sector today.
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Executive Interviews
Cisco CTO Dave Ward: Building a bigger and better internet
As well being SVP, Chief Architect and CTO of Engineering at Cisco Systems, Dave Ward also has ownership connections with both a vineyard and a tomato farm.
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Industry Trends
Big data and analytics: C4 and Genius Digital
Approaches to the phenomenon of addressable audiences, through the eyes of a top specialist vendor and a broadcaster who did all the heavy lifting.
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Executive Interviews
Gidon Katz: Sending TV over the top
Positioning itself as a mainstream pay-TV offering means Now TV has some specific demands, but customer retention remains the biggest challenge.
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Executive Interviews
David Atkins: Engineering the IP future
Supporting the next generation of broadcast and media professionals is essential for industry growth and development; manufacturers can do more to welcome newcomers by designing systems that resemble what engineers are used to.